Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1919 — MAKES APPEAL FOR TREATY [ARTICLE]

MAKES APPEAL FOR TREATY

General Smuts in Message to U. S- Says World Still in Danger. Union of South Africa, Nov. 19.—“1 appeal to America not to blast the hopes of the world through failure to adopt the covenant of the league of nations,” General. Jah Christian Smuts, British member of the league commission, ’said in a message addressed to the United States today. "When freedom was in danger, America rose to the height of opportunity, and saved the world for democracy. Today the world is in no less danger.” Smuts asserted that the league alone can save civilization from dissolution and decay. "America alone hesitates,” he said. "Will the great leader lag behind? I can not believe It.”